Dubai builds the future from scratch in the desert, New York and London retrofit a century-old fabric, Tokyo engineers survival. Comparing the four strategies is the fastest way to understand what you are buying into.
A room-by-room walk through Peninsula Four The Plaza in Business Bay: layouts, the podium levels, service charge risk, and how the resale market treats this tower versus the rest of the Peninsula masterplan.
2 March 2025
What these numbers mean, and what they do not
The developer is inferred from the project name — there is no developer column in the
base. So the figures describe our stock, not the company's share of the Dubai
market: a developer sitting on an enormous volume of completed housing can look smaller
here than one whose projects reach the resale market more often.
These are asking prices, not closed transactions. For a specific building I pull the
registered Land Department sales and show where deals actually closed.
It depends what you are buying and why. Send me your budget and the job it has to do
— I will tell you which of this developer's projects make sense right now and which
I would walk past.